Chemistry
Discover a curated list of renowned celebrities who have made significant contributions to the field of Chemistry. From Nobel laureates to pioneering researchers, explore their fascinating journeys and the impact they have had on scientific advancements.

Alexander Todd
Great Britain
Great BritainChemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1957

Hans Kuhn
Switzerland
SwitzerlandSwiss physical chemist, professor emeritus

Robert Mistrik
Slovakia
SlovakiaSlovak chemist

Ejlhard Mitcherlih
Germany
GermanyGerman chemist

Johan Gadolin
Finland
FinlandFinnish chemist, physicist and mineralogist

Kurt Alder
Germany
GermanyChemist

Eugen Baumann
Germany
GermanyGerman chemist

Hans Fischer
Germany
GermanyNobel Prize in Chemistry, 1930.

Carl Auer Welsbach
Austria
AustriaAustrian chemist

Nikolay Zhavoronkov
Soviet scientist in the field of inorganic chemistry and chemical technology

Albrecht Kossel
Germany
GermanyGerman biochemist

Boris Byzov
Russian chemist

Hermann Emil Fischer
Germany
GermanyGerman organic chemist

Myrtle Bachelder
USA
USAAmerican chemist and Women's Army Corps officer

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
Great Britain
Great BritainBritish biochemist

Joseph Priestley
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish chemist, philosopher, proponent of deism

Jean Charles Galissard de Marignac
Switzerland
SwitzerlandSwiss chemist who discovered ytterbium

Johann Griess
Germany
GermanyGerman organic chemist.

Jean Baptiste Boussingault
France
FranceFrench chemist

William Hyde Wollaston
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish chemist and physicist, scientist of the Royal Society of London

Raimond Davis
USA
USAAmerican chemist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2002.

Carl Cori
USA
USANobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1947 jointly with Gerty T. Cori and Bernardo Usai

Yaroslav Geyerovskiy
Chemist, founder of polarography, Nobel Prize (1959)

Karl Ziegler
Germany
GermanyNobel Prize in Chemistry 1963 (together with D. Natta).

Constantin Fahlberg
Germany
GermanyGerman chemist, inventor of saccharin.

John Kendrew
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish biochemist, specialist in molecular biology,

Karl Bosh
Germany
GermanyChemist

Hermann Staudinger
Germany
GermanyGerman chemist, awarded the 1953 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Andrzej Borodzik
Poland
PolandPolish chemist, specialist in the production of antibiotics, scout

Semen Volfkovich
Soviet chemist, academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences

Iogann Faust
Germany
GermanyDoctor, warlock, who lived in the first half of the 16th century. in Germany.

Ilmar Koppel
Estonia
EstoniaEstonian and Soviet chemist, Doctor of Chemical Sciences

Ilia Borshov
Russia
RussiaRussian botanist and chemist

Hennig Brand
Germany
GermanyHe is believed to have discovered phosphorus in 1669.

Alice Hamilton
USA
USAAmerican scientist, specialist in toxicology and occupational hygiene.

Harold Clayton Urey
USA
USANobel Prize in Chemistry, 1934

Martin Hans Boye
Denmark
DenmarkDanish-American chemist

Michael Goryaev
Kazakhstan
KazakhstanChemist, academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Kazakh SSR

Jerom Karle
USA
USAAmerican chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1985

Jack Baldwin
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish chemist

Frank Clarke
USA
USAAmerican geochemist

Yacov Bickerman
USA
USAAmerican and German chemist

Paul Walden
Russia
RussiaRussian, then German chemist of Latvian origin

Ellen Swallow Richards
USA
USAAmerican chemist

Friedrich Bergius
Germany
GermanyChemist

Theodore William Richards
USA
USAChemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1914

George Wittig
Germany
GermanyGerman organic chemist, Nobel Prize laureate in chemistry (1979, together with G. C. Brown).

Friedrich Adolf Paneth
Austria
AustriaGerman chemist and geochemist

Ernst Otto Beckmann
Germany
GermanyGerman chemist.

Mozes Gomberg
USA
USAAmerican organic chemist known as the "father of radical chemistry"